Indonesia

Chronology of Coverage

Jul. 16, 2015

Subjects and Indonesian crew of Joshua Oppenheimer documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, which tell story of 1965 Indonesian massacres, fear possible repercussions for their participation in films and have taken pains to keep their identities or locations secret. MORE

Jul. 13, 2015

Palu Journal; Palu Mayor Rusdy Mastura is only Indonesian official to offer apology for 1960s massacre of suspected Communists and sympathizers; move has paved way for significant progress toward reconciliation after the Cold War. MORE

Jun. 23, 2015

Serge Atlaoui, Frenchman arrested by Indonesian authorities in 2005 and convicted of drug charges, loses appeal to State Administrative Court in Jakarta, setting stage for his execution. MORE

Jun. 22, 2015

Indonesian smuggler says Australian authorities stopped his boat at sea and paid him over $30,000 to return 65 migrants he was carrying to Indonesia; story, if confirmed, points to tightening of Australia's immigration policy under Prime Min Tony Abbott and potential violation of Austrailan, Indonesian and international laws governing smuggling, bribery and treatment of asylum seekers. MORE

Jun. 14, 2015

Australian Prime Min Tony Abbott faces accusations that government paid smugglers to return boat full of migrants to Indonesia; opposition lawmakers will press Abbott, who refuses to confirm or deny claim made by migrants on ship, to reveal truth. MORE

Jun. 13, 2015

United Nations officials say some of 65 Asian migrants who arrived in Indonesia after being intercepted by Australian authorities tell refugee workers that Australians paid smugglers to take them to Indonesia; report has raised questions about hard-line immigration policies that helped Australian Prime Min Tony Abbott win election in 2013. MORE

May. 28, 2015

International aid organizations are concerned about future of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar living in Indonesian refugee camps, particularly with government's announcement to keep migrants for one year; apprehensive migrants will remain in makeshift camps designed for temporary, short-term emergency housing and want government to move them into medium-term housing solutions. MORE

May. 26, 2015

More than 3,000 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar who were adrift at sea are now waiting in bureaucratic limbo in Indonesia and Malaysia that could continue indefinitely; few countries want to take migrants and there is huge logjam of applicants seeking resettlement. MORE

May. 21, 2015

Indonesia and Malaysia agree to provide temporary shelter for thousands of migrants who have been abandoned at sea by human smugglers; agreement asks for assistance from international community in resettling and repatriating the refugees within one year. MORE

May. 13, 2015

Indonesian Navy turns back migrant ship carrying thousands of passengers; experts caution that thousands of arriving refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh could be stranded at sea. MORE

May. 12, 2015

Refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh numbering over 1,000 have infiltrated Malaysia and Indonesia, many of whom are of Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority who were persecuted and denied citizenship in home countries. MORE

Apr. 30, 2015

Mary Jane Veloso, Philippine woman convicted of smuggling drugs into Indonesia in 2010, is rescued moments before execution after plea from Philippine government; eight other prisoners from various countries are executed for drug trafficking, drawing international outcry; execution is part of Indonesian Pres Joko Widodo's crackdown on drugs. MORE

Apr. 29, 2015

Indonesia executes eight prisoners convicted of drug trafficking, despite international criticism; Mary Jane Veloso, ninth prisoner who was also scheduled for execution, is granted stay after Philippine government asks that she lend assistance to human trafficking case. MORE

Apr. 26, 2015

Indonesia is expected to move forward with execution of nine people, mostly foreigners, convicted of drug crimes, despite protests and diplomatic tensions; mass execution will be largest of its kind in decades, and comes amid campaign by Pres Joko Widodo to combat what he calls 'national emergency' of drug abuse. MORE

Apr. 25, 2015

Indonesia gives 72-hour notice, as required by law, that nine foreigners from Australia, France, Brazil, Philippines and Nigeria will be executed for drug trafficking; exact date for executions will not be set until Indonesian Supreme Court rules on appeal of one Indonesian member of group. MORE

Apr. 7, 2015

Lawyer for Australian drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran hopes to bring case to constitutional court after death sentences appeal was rejected by Indonesian court. MORE

Apr. 3, 2015

Indonesian court finds two educators at Jakarta Intercultural School guilty of sexually assaulting three Indonesian kindergarten students and sentences them to 10 years in prison. MORE

Mar. 19, 2015

Indonesian Vice Pres Jusuf Kalla says country may not execute 10 drug smugglers, nine of them foreigners, due to last-minute legal appeals. MORE

Mar. 4, 2015

Indonesia's executions off drug offenders, most of them foreigners convicted of smuggling, are being criticized by allies including France, Brazil and Netherlands; country executed six convicts in January, five of them foreigners, and 10 more may be put to death soon; 64 others have exhausted their appeals. MORE

Mar. 1, 2015

Tupperware parties are popular in Indonesia, where most women stay at home to keep house and raise their children; Tupperware Brands Corp reports sales force there, now about 250,000, made more than $200 million in 2014. MORE

Feb. 20, 2015

Carol Giacomo Editorial Observer warns that Indonesian Pres Joko Widodo's nomination of several officials suspected of corruption to prominent posts represents growing threat to country's Corruption Eradication Commission, known as KPK; contends tensions are growing between country's police and commission and Joko is weakening in face of political pressure; says reducing corruption is essential to Indonesia's growth. MORE

Feb. 17, 2015

Indonesian Pres Joko Widodo rejects several clemency appeals by Australian government on behalf of 2 men convicted of drug smuggling and facing execution; Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, leaders of Bali Nine group, are sentenced to be executed for 2005 attempt to smuggle 18 pounds of heroin into Australia. MORE

Feb. 12, 2015

Conviction and imprisonment of Indonesian businessmen Indar Atmanto, Hotasi Nababan and Bachtiar Abdul Fatah on corruption charges has raised fears of petty rivalries and malfeasance within country's anticorruption agency itself; businessmen, human rights organizations and even government have argued for innocence of accused. MORE

Jan. 30, 2015

Indonesian investigators say black box data shows that French co-pilot Remi Emmanuel Plesel was at controls of AirAsia Flight 8501 when it crashed into sea; Plesel was less experienced than Indonesian flight captain Iriyanto. MORE

Jan. 29, 2015

Surabaya Journal; Surabaya, Indonesia, has become gathering point for families grieving relatives lost in crash of AirAsia Flight 8501, which plummeted into Java Sea, killing all 162 aboard; many families visit city's crisis centers daily in hoping to receive news of 92 victims whose bodies have not been found. MORE

Jan. 28, 2015

Indonesian government officially ends search for bodies of victims from AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into Java Sea in December 2014, killing all 162 people on board; smaller civilian team will continue its own search operation. MORE

Jan. 23, 2015

Indonesian Navy divers retrieve bodies from fuselage of downed AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed in December 2014, killing all 162 people on board; some 115 people are still unaccounted for. MORE

Jan. 21, 2015

Indonesia's top transportation official says AirAsia plane that crashed into Java Sea in December 2014 was climbing at unsustainable speed of 6,000 feet per minute before plunging and killing all 162 people aboard. MORE

Jan. 19, 2015

Indonesia executes six people convicted of drug trafficking, including five foreigners. MORE

Jan. 18, 2015

News Analysis; people of Indonesia have grown weary of Pres Joko Widodo for appointing Budi Gunawan, police general facing corruption investigation, as national police chief and for eliminating fuel subsidies, which cost state tens of billion of dollars a year; moves have cast pall over Joko's promises to be a man of the people and opponent of corruption. MORE

Jan. 14, 2015

Indonesian search teams recover second black box from AirAsia crash in Java Sea, and also pinpoint location of aircraft's fuselage; search continues for more missing bodies after 48 are recovered. MORE

Jan. 10, 2015

National Search and Rescue Agency says research ship from Indonesia and an American destroyer have both detected pinging from so-called black boxes of AirAsia plane that crashed into Java Sea on Dec 28. MORE

Jan. 9, 2015

Indonesian officials report that search and rescue teams have detected pinging from black box of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea on Dec 28. MORE

Jan. 6, 2015

Indonesian Transportation Ministry announces that it is suspending several officials for letting AirAsia Flight 8501 take off from Surabaya, Indonesia; officials say flight did not have all required clearances and that they have put in place regulations requiring airlines in the country to inform pilots of weather conditions prior to each takeoff. MORE

Jan. 6, 2015

Dr Djoko Iskandar study in journal PLOS One reports discovery of only known frog to give birth to live tadpoles, known as Limnonectes larvaepartus, on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island. MORE

Jan. 3, 2015

Indonesian officials say two large pieces of Air Asia's Airbus A320-200 jetliner that plunged into the Java Sea have been found; also say they have recovered 46 bodies and identified three. MORE

Jan. 2, 2015

Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency, says bodies of nine of 162 people aboard Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 have been recovered, and that finding plane could take another week; search for more remnants of flight is postponed due to poor weather conditions. MORE

Jan. 1, 2015

Crash of AirAsia Flight 8501 into Java Sea has raised fears that Indonesia's aviation infrastructure, already considered safety deficient, is struggling to handle increasing popularity of air travel; investigators are still looking for both victims' bodies and reasons for crash. MORE

Dec. 31, 2014

Search and rescue officials say they have found bodies and debris of AirAsia Flight 8501 off coast of southwestern Borneo; cause of the plane's crash is as yet undetermined, and officials suggest it is unlikely that survivors will be found. MORE

Dec. 30, 2014

United States destroyer Sampson is sent to join search for missing AirAsia Flight 8501, as Indonesia expands search area in Java Sea to about 60,000 miles. MORE

Dec. 29, 2014

Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency, says investigators believe missing AirAsia jet Flight 8501 has probably sunk into ocean and warns that Indonesia does not have equipment suitable for underwater search; Malaysia, Singapore and Australia have offered their help in search operation, effort that evokes distressingly familiar mix of grief and mystery after Malaysia Airlines aircraft went missing over Indian Ocean. MORE

Dec. 28, 2014

AirAsia announces that Indonesian authorities are in process of determining whereabouts of Flight QZ8501 after air traffic control lost contact with plane. MORE

Dec. 19, 2014

Indonesian government announces crackdown against thousand of illegal foreign fishing boats that it says is robbing local industry. MORE

Dec. 15, 2014

Dec. 14, 2014

Rescuers are searching for victims of landslide in Indonesia that has killed at least 17 people. MORE

Dec. 13, 2014

Indonesian police summon Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, chief editor of English-language Jakarta Post, for questioning in connection with published cartoon that depicted radical Islamists in Syria. MORE

Dec. 12, 2014

Human Rights Watch issues report that reignites debate over practice in Indonesia in which women who wish to become part of police force are subjected to virginity testing to determine their morality. MORE

General Information on Indonesia

Official Name: Republic of Indonesia
Capital: Jakarta (Current local time)
Government Type: Republic
Population: 234.69 million
Area: 736,000 square miles; about three times the size of Texas
Languages: Bahasa Indonesia (official) English, Dutch, local dialects (the most widely spoken of which is Javanese)
Literacy: Total Population: [90%] Male: [94%]; Female: [87%]
Year of Independence: 1945
Web site:Indonesia.go.id

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